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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I just had a thought. Yes I do have one evry now and then! Would a magazine or even a book company give a volume discount to a group of people if they ordered a bunch of books / magazines at once. Say 25 -50 of us here all wanted a 2008 RedBook or a subscription to Coin World, do you think they would give us a group discount on pricing? Would anyone have contacts with these companies or any intrest in buying / subscribing to these? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
668 Posts |
I would have interest in Greysheet, and CoinWorld |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1541 Posts |
I'll be interested in Greysheet and CoinWorld too. Thinking along your idea, few people together can subscribe to Greysheet online version and share it among them. |
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Valued Member
United States
455 Posts |
I'll gladly volunteer to collect all the cash.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Its a good thought, but a lot of work... each year at the begin of the year we post on the pcgs forum (hope I am allowed to mention other forums here) about rolls of silver eagles.... we lock in prices and give them out with no markup...its our way of saying thank you to our customers.... usually our price is 50c to $2 less than what dealers sell them for at coin shows back to my statement its a lot of work.... its a LOT OF WORK... collecting money and then shipping.... but with books or magazines you might get a publisher to do the shipping... but they tend to only want to ship to 1 address if they are going to give discount... Good Luck its a  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not sure how it works but with the Red Book as an example, if you contact Whitman Publishing for a book or two or three, the price is really high. If you go to a coin store it's almost the same. At coin shows lots cheaper. If you look at Walmart Web site for books, even cheaper than anywhere else. Now here is the situation. These must be purchased from Whitman at some type of bulk discount so that they can be sold for less than Whitman and still make a profit. On the back of the Red Book, 2008, it states $14.95 for the soft cover, ringed version. However, I know a dealer that sells them for $10 to friends and doesn't loose money either. Now at most coin shows I go to there is a table full of coin magazines such as Coin World, Numismatic News, etc. and all free. So how do they do it? Like I said I don't know how this works but I would suspect purchasing in volume or having some kind of buisness name would get you a large amount of any coin magazine at a tremendous discount. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If this is possible, count me in! quote:
Now at most coin shows I go to there is a table full of coin magazines such as Coin World, Numismatic News, etc. and all free. So how do they do it?
I got an idea! We'll have certain members be responsible for a certain month. Then during that month, they go to a coin show and collect all the free mags and send them to the other members.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I really have no idea about to go about magazines but I recently bought the greysheet monthly supplement online version and printed it out. I can easily email to anyone who's in need and another can buy it next month and do the same. If 12 people get together you'll have a full years worth for one price. Having said all this... is it good ethics?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I'm sure it's actually shipping that takes the final toll of the overall pricing. Perhaps that might be an interesting thing to study.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I can easily email to anyone who's in need and another can buy it next month and do the same. If 12 people get together you'll have a full years worth for one price.
Having said all this... is it good ethics?
Not only is it not good ethics, it is also illegal, it is called copyright infringement. I don't know about magazines, but the supply dealers will often give you a much better price on things like redbooks if you buy a couple of cases or more of them. The local coin clubs I belong to often buy a couple of cases for the members each year and pass the savings along. You might be able to get a similar deal directly from the publisher, but you may have to buy a larger quantity of books. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree with you Conder. But if you think about it... taking your dealers back issues is the same thing. We get a good deal on the Red Book from forum mom every year, so that's not an issue. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree with you Conder. But if you think about it... taking your dealers back issues is the same thing.
Not quite. If you take the dealers old copy one copy has been paid for and is being used by one person (ad when you get it iis an old cpy that has bee superseded. In the other one copy s being paid for then duplicated and beinggiven to many peope while it is still current. More like if your dealer made multiple copies of his NEW sheet when he first got it and handed them out for free. Yes I know things like that happen, and you are not likely to get caught or in trouble over it, but it is still illegal and unethical. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I got an idea! We'll have certain members be responsible for a certain month. Then during that month, they go to a coin show and collect all the free mags and send them to the other members.
Amazon99: You may have said this as a joke, but something similar does happen at coin shows. At one coin show they put about 20 of each coin mag on a table near the front. I saw one guy do this several times at that show each Month. Under the table are the boxes of those mags still to be put out. He reaches in, grabs hand fulls and takes them out to his car. I've heard from dealers that know him that he sells them at a flea market. People see him and no one says anything. There is a guard at the door and he too says nothing.
I usually take a few, send one to my Son in Tennessee, one for the next door neighbor. They are there for free so everyone takes them. Show opens at 9AM but most are all gone by 9:30AM.
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Posted 10/09/2007 9:41 pm
